Social bookmarking is a great way to build high PR backlinks and social buzz around your blog posts, articles and videos BUT…

if you want any decent results… you need a LOT of bookmarks and proxies.

HERE IS WHY…

If you create 1 account on 20 most popular bookmarking sites and bookmark your pages it will do no big difference in your traffic and rankings because it is not enough to “rise above the noise” and get noticed by Search Engines.

SO YOU NEED MORE ACCOUNTS AND BOOKMARKS…

It’s one thing to bookmark your content once on bunch of different social bookmarking sites, it’s another thing to have 50, 100, 200, 500 people bookmark your content on each network (social buzz). Social Buzz is also a new ranking factor. If many people are bookmarking your content then they are telling the search engines that your content is “timely” and “relevant”. Each time a person bookmarks your content it creates another reference to your content. Each time another person bookmarks that same content it increases your ranking and visibility within each bookmarking network and in the search engines…

BUT THERE IS A PROBLEM…

If you would try to register dozens of accounts on major bookmarking sites and then try to post hundreds of bookmarks everyday using your own IP address it would get BANNED awfully quickly.

Think about it – it looks very suspicious and unnatural – dozens of bookmarks on different accounts leading to same domain/s coming from same IP address (even if you use Bookmarking Demon RSS camouflage feature).

In order to be able to post bunch of bookmarks without leaving giant footprint and without your IP getting banned you need to USE PROXIES.

Everything you do online can be tracked right back to your computer through your IP address – unique web address, assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). This address is totally unique to you and your connection, at any particular time no-one else will be using the same IP address anywhere in the world and logs are kept of who is using what IP address and when they used it. This means as soon as you crank up your social bookmarking campaigns, you must start using proxies.

Free or Paid Proxies

I have tried hundreds of public proxy lists, you can find them all over the web, but the results were very poor – 10%-15% success rate. You will need a constant supply of free public proxies to use inside Bookmarking Demon, as these proxies die within days or hours of creation and are heavily abused by other users; be prepared loose a LOT of bookmarks because of “connection problems”.

Transparent, Distorting or Anonymous Proxies

There are many different proxy anonymity classifications in the Internet. The simplest way is to divide all proxies into two parts. First part of proxies are completely anonymous i.e. they hide all your private information. All other proxies are non-anonymous as they may reveal part of it.

Roughly speaking there are three levels of anonymity:

Transparent Proxies

Transparent proxy servers do not hide your IP address. They do provide anyone with your real IP address and do not hide any information about you and your reading interests.

Actually they just retransmit information between your computer and server without modifying it in any way to keep your privacy. Besides that, they let anyone know that you are surfing through a proxy server. Transparent proxy servers can be used for all kinds of Web-services just to speed up data transfers.

Distorting proxies

Distorting proxy servers hide your IP address or modify it in some way to prevent target server know about it. They may provide or may hide information about you and your activity. Besides that, they let anyone know that you are surfing through a proxy server.

Distorting proxy servers can be used for all kinds of Web-services to speed up data transfers and to keep your privacy. But they specifically tell target server that you are using proxy server.

Anonymous Proxies

Anonymous proxy servers hide your IP address. They do not provide anyone with your IP address and effectively hide any information about you and your activity. Besides that, they do NOT even let anyone know that you are surfing through a proxy server.

Anonymous proxy servers can be used for all kinds of needs, such as automated social bookmarking, scraping, pinging, surfing, Web-Mail, web-chat rooms, FTP archives, etc. to speed up connection and keep privacy as well.

If you want to successfully use automated social bookmarking as one of your marketing strategies for link building and buzz creation you need to be using ANONYMOUS proxies.

Private or Shared Proxies

Shared means that more than one user may be using the same proxy IP addresses at the same time; Private means that proxy IP address is only used by you.

I have purchased several shared proxy packages but there were FOUR PROBLEMS:

Some of the lists were so similar to each other (all IP’s from the same city or region), that I really wasn’t looking very unique to social bookmarking sites;

Minimum order was too high;

Typically shared proxies get abused by all sorts of users and a lot of big sites are blocking their entire range of IP addresses;

If someone else you’re sharing proxy with get banned you get banned too.